Zarna Garg
Indian-American comedian
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Leslie Jones
American comedian
Lynda Weinman
Digital artist and author of one of the first web design textbooks in 1996
Nina Zagat
Co–founder of the eponymous Zagat guide
Jennifer Homans
Jennifer Homans published Apollo’s Angels in 2010, a history of classical ballet that she had been working on for ten years. It is an epic work, tracing four centuries and spanning different countries, setting the evolution of the form in the many political, philosophical, and aesthetic contexts that shaped it.
Jessica Mitford
Jessica Mitford was born in 1917, one of the six renowned Mitford sisters from an aristocratic English famil, and would go on to become the “queen of the muckrakers.”
Julienne Aisner
A former teacher and scriptwriter, Julienne Aisner was running a Paris film company when the Nazis occupied France. The 43-year-old Aisner was recruited in January 1943 by an SOE officer to rent apartments for arriving SOE agents, welcome them to Paris and provide them with false documents—identity cards, ration cards, and work permits—that she obtained.
Katharine Graham
Owner, board chair and publisher of The Washington Post for decades
Edwina Brocklesby
Edwina Brocklesby, who would go on to be the U.K.’s oldest Ironman triathlete and founder and director of Silverfit, which promotes physical activity among older people, “didn’t do any exercise at all until I was 50.”
Eve Ensler
Playwright Eve Ensler, who would later go by V, debuted her ground-breaking The Vagina Monologues in 1996.